How it works

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Enter your repository information
Provide in the above form a URL or a GitHub repository that contains Jupyter notebooks, as well as a branch, tag, or commit hash. Launch will build your Binder repository.

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It builds a Docker image of your repository
Binder will search for a dependency file, such as requirements.txt or environment.yml, in the repository’s root directory (more details on more complex dependencies in documentation). The dependency files will be used to build a Docker image. If an image has already been built for the given repository, it will not be rebuilt. If a new commit has been made, the image will automatically be rebuilt.

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Interact with your notebooks in a live environment!
A JupyterHub server will host your repository’s contents. We offer you a reusable link and badge to your live repository that you can easily share with others

JupyterHub, a multi-user Hub, spawns, manages, and proxies multiple instances of the single-user Jupyter notebookserver. JupyterHub can be used to serve notebooks to a class of students, a corporate data science group, or a scientific research group.